From de0329be3bb18f9c56336efe1b15a1cb2441b07d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Holst Swende <martin@swende.se>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 13:28:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] node: do not continue if 'signer' is used but connection
 fails

---
 node/config.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/node/config.go b/node/config.go
index 244b15459c..43ee5ec212 100644
--- a/node/config.go
+++ b/node/config.go
@@ -482,7 +482,7 @@ func makeAccountManager(conf *Config) (*accounts.Manager, string, error) {
 		if extapi, err := external.NewExternalBackend(conf.ExternalSigner); err == nil {
 			backends = append(backends, extapi)
 		} else {
-			log.Info("Error configuring external signer", "error", err)
+			return nil, "", fmt.Errorf("error connecting to external signer: %v", err)
 		}
 	}
 	if len(backends) == 0 {